Breaking: Man Who Brought Gun to D.C. on January 6 Receives Toughest Capitol-Riot Sentence Yet

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Texas man, who brought a gun to the January 6 Capitol riot, to 7.25 years in prison.

Guy Reffit, a member of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters, received the punishment, the longest sentence for an individual involved in January 6 to date, after the judge denied the Justice Department’s request for a “terrorism enhancement” that would have yielded more prison time.

In March, Reffitt was found guilty of five criminal counts, including obstructing the certification of the 2020 election results for Joe Biden and transporting a firearm to stir civil unrest. He did not inflict physical violence that day and did not gain entrance into the Capitol building.

In November 2021, Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman, was sentenced to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison after he was convicted of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding.

Man Who Brought Gun to D.C. on January 6 Receives Toughest Capitol-Riot Sentence Yet A member of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters received a 7.25-year sentence after a jury ... READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.